Recommended Reading: Troubling Echos and the Arbiters of Truth
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Recommended Reading: Troubling Echos and the Arbiters of Truth
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Jeff Stein, Asha Rangappa, Justin Ling, Jill Filipovic, Michelangelo Signorile, Erin Reed, and Pete Kurtz-Glovas.
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
writes writes that “The willingness of too many police and military leaders and supervisors to ignore, or even embrace, extremists in the ranks raises uncomfortable questions about whether the U.S. might well be facing an elaborate coup plot in 2024 like the one German authorities disrupted last week, despite the Biden Justice Department’s successful prosecution of hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters and conspirators, including Oath Keepers leaders Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs, convicted on sedition and other charges.” writes that “having courts police our basic obligations to each other — like telling the truth about actual events — isn’t sustainable for a healthy democracy. We need to have mechanisms outside the judicial system to resurrect some boundaries between agreed upon facts, legitimate controversies, and ideas that are not worthy of debate.” writes that "five died in the brutal assault on Club Q, including two transgender people. Dozens more were saved thanks to the bravery of club patrons — including an army veteran there with his family. Today, the massacre at Club Q is already sliding off the frontpage. The same morally bankrupt propagandists who enabled this attack are back to their old tricks. Queer people — Black folks, Jewish people, immigrants, women — are being set up to, once again, be failed."
writes "Republicans have made clear they have zero interest in enacting the will of voters when it comes to abortion rights. But they also want to squelch even conversation and information about abortion... Republicans and anti-abortion groups are also trying to criminalize sharing information about how and where to have a safe abortion." writes that "these justices can really do anything they want. And nothing, it seems, will stop the court’s erosion of anti-discrimination laws. First it will be public accommodations, then employment, housing, other areas." writes that "detransitioners deserve our love and support... The problem comes when political detrans people determine their lived experiences are applicable to everyone else, and that they must prevent transition for everyone else and testify against trans people in hearings." writes that "we do not know who planned these attacks or what their goals were, however we do know that attacks on infrastructure are popular among a specific subgroup of white supremacists known as Accelerationists."
